🚀 go-pugleaf

On Wed, 21 Apr 1999 08:24:30 +0100, "Roger Jones"
<news@roga.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>For some reason the server can't be found on this network. If I ping
>10.0.0.2 or 192.168.0.1 I get a reasonable response. If I ping "server" I
>get "bad IP number" message. All clients can ping each other, problem is
>with server.
>
>Any ideas?


I assume you've just added the "server" to the network? If so it
sounds like you haven't created an entry for it in the \windows\hosts
file on any of the machines. You can verify this by opening a DOS
window and typing "ping <server name>", then type "ping <server IP
address>". If the IP address works, but the server name returns an
"Unknown host <server name> then that's the problem. You need to
modify the hosts file on every machine so the server name is present.

Here's my hosts file just in case you don't know what I'm talking
about :

127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.1.1 john
192.168.1.2 mike
192.168.1.3 clare

HTH.....